>>>>>>I maybe very wrong, but in the web world, just installing Bootstrap gives you some basic control over how you controls look. Is there something similar for WPF?
>>>>>>I don't seem to find anything, I have a very basic little wpf application with a pageframe, buttons, textblocks and textboxes. But it looks very much like something I would have been writing in Winforms. :)
>>>>>>I was hoping to install some kind of XAML library and voilà, my application would look like something made in the third millenium.
>>>>>>Was I being a bit naive, and will I have to create my library myself, or are there (simple) libraries around that I can use and would give me a jumpstart?
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>>>>>With WPF/Silverlight, you have complete control over the look and feel of your app. Take a look at Themes, Styling controls and Blend.
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>>>>Thanks John. I (think I) do know how to go about and change the look and feel of my app. It's just that I was hoping to get some kind of template that I could include so that I don't have to start from scratch.
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>>>Google WPF Themes. There a quite a few free ones (and some not free). e.g.
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>>>http://www.nukeation.com/free.aspx#7
>>>http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/
>>>http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/30e8b37d-01a0-4749-abcb-a5d7631e7646
>>>https://www.nuget.org/packages/Wpf.Themes/
>>>
>>>Disclaimer : Haven't tried any of them :-}
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>>Looks promising. Thanks. Are you saying then that you have been developing all that stuff by yourself(ves)?:)
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>Nah. I just stick to the vanilla (with the occasional tweak).....

I see! And here I was, thinking that the ui was the real added value of wpf. :)